citron

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A thorny evergreen shrub or small tree (Citrus medica) native to India and widely cultivated for its large lemonlike fruits that have a thick warty rind.

n. The fruit of this plant, whose rind is often candied and used in confections and fruitcakes.

n. A globose watermelon (Citrullus lanatus var. citroides) having white flesh that is candied or pickled.

n. A grayish-green yellow.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. a greenish yellow colour.

n. a small citrus tree, Citrus medica

n. the fruit of a citron tree.

n. the candied rind of the citron fruit.

adj. Of a greenish yellow colour.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A fruit resembling a lemon, but larger, and pleasantly aromatic; it is produced by the citron tree (Citrus medica). The thick rind, when candied, is the citron of commerce. The fruit was once called the lime.

n. A citron tree, Citrus medica.

n. A citron melon.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The fruit of the citron-tree, a variety of Citrus medica, distinguished from the lemon by the absence of an umbo at the summit and by its very thick rind.

n. The citron-tree, Citrus medica.

n. A round and nearly solid variety of the watermelon, Citrullus vulgaris, with white and almost flavorless flesh, sometimes used as a preserve.

I took occasion to measure one of the lemons, called a citron-lemon, and found its circumference to be twenty-one inches one way by fifteen inches the other, -- about as big as a railway conductor's lantern.